variovorax gossypii sp. nov., isolated from gossypium hirsutum. | a beige-pigmented bacterial strain (jm-310t), isolated from the healthy internal root tissue of 4-week-old cotton (gossypium hirsutum, cultivar 'des-119') in tallassee (macon county), alabama, usa, was studied taxonomically. the isolate produced small rod-shaped cells, which showed a gram-negative staining behaviour. a comparison of the 16s rrna gene sequence of the isolate revealed 99.2, 98.8, 98.7, 98.7, 98.1 and 97.6 % similarity to the 16s rrna gene sequences of the type strains of variovora ... | 2015 | 26341669 |